History of Aerelios

[Mr. R]

 

As Killer Shrike said:

 

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I would do it procedurally, starting at the first regional settlement(s) in antiquity and walking forward in time introducing various events (wars, famines, new technologies, natural disasters such as floods, rivers changing course and / or getting damned and / or bridged (etc), over / under population, trade imbalances, and so on). Layer it up over time, to attain verisimilitude.

 

And so I present the History of Aerelios  (Instalment One)

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Year 1

 

Humans enter the Gefting Sea Basin and begin to settle along its coast.  Most settlements were at rivers that empty into the Sea.  

 

Aerelios was founded at the mouth of the Kulana River as a fishing village and convenient port.  Located at the end of a finger pointing into the land, it was sheltered from the storms and led to the North and the jungle trade.

 

Year 50

Sailors from Aerelios locate a second city on the Kulana River.  Just downriver from where the Speno River empties into the Kulana and where the Fairn River empties into the Kulana, this three river city calls itself Danris.  Trade compacts between the two cities are signed and trade established.

 

Year 75

First of the Major Goblyn incursions.  Goblyns, aided by Ogres, Trolls, and Giants, stage attacks on outlying settlements of both Aerelios and Danris.  Battles flare until finally the Goblyns retreat out of the Basin area.  Aerelios expands along the coast of the Gefting Sea to the Onel Hills (West) and the Lost River and the Shattered Hills (East).

 

Year 150

Rise of Tenryk and Danris.  Tenryk, a city occupying the plains east of the Kulana River, begins organizing cities nearby into a nation.  Danris follows suit and occupies the west bank of the Kulana River down to the Onel Hills.  Aerelios is split in half.  Smuggling across the river has become a huge industry.  Other cities along the Gefting Sea establish their own ports and merchants and pirates both expand!

 

 

Please feel free to add ideas.  Basically I will be taking the timeline they have, condense it (Sorry but 6000 years and the nations have the same borders?  And I thought the elves were unchanging!), add new nations, (Both in the Basin Area but also in the Northern Jungles and plains area, something other than here abide primitive tribesman we can enslave, because jungle nations do not exist)

[Mr. R]

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Year 150-300 

Rise of the City States. 

Tenryk

Danris

Rasul

Ditren

Thomar

Ixon

Kerqod

All are found along the shores of the Gefting Sea and are all near or at rivers.

 

 

 

 

 

300-400

The Compact Wars

City states get into alliances and petty wars for control of the Gefting Sea.  Aerelios begins expanding as it is one of three good anchorages on the North shore of the Sea ( the others being Koy on the Lost River and Kerqod along the Tamed River).  Smuggling between Aerelios east and Aerelios West expands and more than one secret dock is built into the hillside near the city to hide activity.

 

Aerelios attacked at least three times and sacked once.  Mayors on both sides start sharing funds for common defense and rebuilding.  

 

400-500

Rise of Tenryk Empire

After 100 years of intermittent war, Tenryk begins expanding east and west.  It begins by taking Danris and the whole Kulana River to Aerelios.  It then expands east to the Shattered Hills and south and west to the Onel Hills.

 

Aerelios is fortified as its main port on the Gefting Sea.  Over the next 100 years Tenryk expands across the basin taking cities either by force or treaty.  The last to join is Ixon and the lords of Feydor.

 

Tenryk Language is standardized across the Empire as well a Currency.  Aerelios thrives as the Major port of the Empire.

 

500-650

The Tenryk Empire sends expeditions to explore the rest of the continent.  Better communication with the K’rsondi Jungle cities are made, the Corridor leading to the Northern Plains is mapped, formal contact with the Nomads of the Forbek Steppes is made and the Tramel Highlands are recognised.

 

Aerelios became the de facto capital of the Empire due to its position on the Gefting Sea and Kulana River.  A great library is established along with a set of colleges, both mundane and magical.  The Three Paths of Magic, Metier Casting, Totem Casting, and Rune Crafting are categorized and a section of the Library is set aside for formulas and matrices.  Only Ebon Bay in Feydor has a larger collection. 

 

Goblyn attacks happen across the whole of the Empire, but rarely achieve any results.

 

650-675

Cramlyk Plague

Cramlyk starts as a small infection in North Kerq near the Wyrm Pass and quickly spreads.  Within months all of Kerq is infected.  Soon after it reaches Aerelios.  Death Rates are between 25-40%.   Many ruling houses are wiped out and in some cases whole villages /small cities disappear.  Most cities, despairing of support, break off from the Empire in self preservation.  Goblyns take advantage of the situation and take over many areas and roam at will.  The fact that they are immune to Cramlyk aids them.  Many former human cities are now dominated by goblyns/ogres/trolls/giants.

 

Aerelios stands behind its walls and concentrates on keeping sea and river traffic open.  Pioneers the use of independent adventures to help strike back against the Goblyns.  Soon most major cities on the Gefting Sea have Adventurers Clubs and Companies!

 

675-750

Goblyn Wars

 

[Mr. R]

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650-675

Cramlyk Plague

Cramlyk starts as a small infection in North Kerq near the Wyrm Pass and quickly spreads.  Within months all of Kerq is infected.  Soon after it reaches Aerelios.  Death Rates are between 25-40%.   Many ruling houses are wiped out and in some cases whole villages /small cities disappear.  Most cities, despairing of support, break off from the Empire in self preservation.  Goblyns take advantage of the situation and take over many areas and roam at will.  The fact that they are immune to Cramlyk aids them.  Many former human cities are now dominated by goblyns/ogres/trolls/giants.

 

Tenryk was effectively destroyed and looted.  Shunned ever since, the ruins surrounded by a dense forest that grew around it.  

 

Aerelios stands behind its walls and concentrates on keeping sea and river traffic open.  Pioneers the use of independent adventures to help strike back against the Goblyns.  Soon most major cities on the Gefting Sea have Adventurers Clubs and Companies!

 

675-850

Goblyn Wars

For the next one hundred seventy five years Goblyns rampage over the Basin states.  Many smaller settlements are destroyed and most larger ones just hold on.  As the Goblyns are pushed back, a new threat emerges, the Black Wind.  Many of the dead refuse to stay buried.  Some come back as skeletons or zombies, some much worse.  The only consolation is the Goblyns hate these UN-dead as much as the humans.  Finally after many battles and skirmishes the Goblyns seem to disappear from the Basin Area.

 

850-1000

Warring States period

Basin area is divided into dozens of small states across the land.  Aerelios and Stonova extent the Steppes Road that crosses the Forbek Steppes and links through the Coastal Jomoloto Mountains to the west coast!  This gives Aerelios more access to the east west trade.  Aerelios and Stonova join in an alliance that sees them control not only the Steppes Road, but the norther part of the Hrange Forest, and part of the Onel Hills!

 

 

1000-1200

The Second Compact 

 

[Mr. R]

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850-1000

Warring States period

Basin area is divided into dozens of small states across the land.  Aerelios and Stonova extent the Steppes Road that crosses the Forbek Steppes and links through the Coastal Jomoloto Mountains to the west coast!  This gives Aerelios more access to the east west trade.  Aerelios and Stonova join in an alliance that sees them control not only the Steppes Road, but the northern part of the Hrange Forest, and part of the Onel Hills!

 

 

1000-1200

The Second Compact 

This was not the way it started, but the way it ended.  Events began when Thosque (formerly Rasul) decided it wanted to be the pre-imminent port on the Gefting Sea.  So began a hot-cold war that lasted 200 years and eventually encompassed the whole basin area.  It started with naval engagements in the western parts of the Gefting Sea.  Both sides attacked merchants of the other and blamed it all on pirates.  But then there would be a peaceful time.  Then war again.  Then It started to spread to other ports and cities and soon these other cities started to ally together to face off against the two main rivals.

 

Eventually it became a north/south conflict with only one city staying neutral to all these events.  Now armies were landed on enemy soil for fast raids to disrupt the enemy.  One Thosquan general rampaged over Aerelios for over two years, before making his way back home.  Peace came because of the return of an old enemy, the Goblyns had returned!

 

 

[Mr. R]

Last entry

 

Any suggestions or additions?

 

Should I make the timeline longer (IE make the events happen over a longer period of time)?

 

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1200-1275

Though the Goblyns had returned, their effect was not as dramatic.  Most cities had decent militias, and there was no Cramlyk to aid them.  But it did result in an end to the Second Compact War, as the Goblyns were seen as the greater threat.  But Adventures based in the major cities led campaigns to blunt the effects of the return.  Many areas are still under Goblyn control though.

 

1265-1275

Drought

For seven of the last ten years a drought has plagued the Basin area and if rumors are true, extend all the way up the K’rsondi Jungles and Northern Plains.  Nomads of the Forbek Steppes are ranging farther to find pasturage for their herds and the Trammel Highlands are experiencing warm winters with little snow.  The Gefting Sea itself dropped four meters and many ports have to extend their docks.  Only three years ago did it break and regular rains return.  The Gefting Sea is rising back to its regular level and farm production is back to previous levels.

 

 

Such is the state of the Basin area today.

 

 

[death tribble]

This is pretty good and well thought out.

Depending on how you want to go you could suggest that someone went looking for the Goblyns and ten the drought occurred or

someone went looking for Tenryk and then the drought occurred.

[assault]

4 hours ago, Mr. R said:

Should I make the timeline longer (IE make the events happen over a longer period of time)?

 

No. If anything, it's too long already.

[Mr. R]

1 hour ago, assault said:

 

No. If anything, it's too long already.

Explain please.  If I can make it more concise, I will.  

 

Anything extraneous I want to leave out!

[assault]

I wouldn't leave anything out.

It's actually pretty good. At most I might trim a little off the time periods. Maybe squish it into 1000 years.

Actually, yes - a bit of a "it's the millennium, something important is obviously going to happen" vibe, even though saner people might go "dude, it's an arbitrary numbering system".

[Mr. R]

Thank you.  I am basically condensing and adding to material from a supplement of mine.  And I had to do a LOT of condensing.  Their time line goes for 6000 (Yeas SIX thousand) years.  Oh and the wars just result in the borders just resetting to where they were before.  Like these countries have remained static for 50 centuries!  Like I knew the elves were unchanging, but this is OVER the top.